The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1858, Page 2

9 “ family. Like the peculiar children ia many other familtes he has been bated by his brothers and sisters from infancy, and the ‘parent has slizhted bim and allowed the bigger ones to peck upon him. Bat, by the by, these same pect chil are geuerally the best of the family; and because they are 0, and not like the others, they are hated. So has it been with the Saints. It is absurd to talk of their deserving hatred and persecation. [tis ‘the old justification for oppression and wi We must continually appeal to the civil law and au- thority to justify or punish us, and protest against lynch law and moboeratic rule. We ask for trial and proof of crime, and not prejadice, spiteful names and unsul ed accusations. Saints have been given pleaty of the latter amd denied the former, and in this fact lies the stroagest justifica- tion that can be givea. They have been hated, mobbed, murdered and exiled, we kaow; but that brings no justification to their haters, mobbers, murderers and pursaers; nor do these facts make ‘the striking of an intended death blow less cowardly. But the Buchanan administration undertook the assasein-like task upon the same old grounds where the enemies of the Saints had before. The brothers and sisters of young Deseret hated the mountain child, and badly wanted to pom- mel and scratch him, for the logical reason that shay did hate him and did want to pommel and scrate him. That was sufficient fora magnanimous govera- ment to Know; and, scorniug iavestigation aad the civil arm, it sent the “boys,” in all the “ pride, pomp and circumstance ‘of glorious war,” to * smash”’ the menaetae: But the undertaking has turned out to be pecu- Harily embarrassing, troublesome and epee eh It has held up a mighty nation as a laughiagstock for other nations. The dignitied London Times has not been able to refrain from chuckliag, months ago, over the ridiculoas and mean figure which America has cut in the affair. Even the papers of the States have not been able to resist an occasional laugh and pun at the expense of the administration and the Utab ex, itten. hong the “expense,” touching them: to the quick, has brought ont a litrle fecling as weil. The New York Tribune thus half seriously and haif facetiously treats in an editorial upon the resent turn of affaurs:— “The President, in an official communication to Congress, bas congratulated that body on the auspicious termination of the Mormon war. Had he been so fond of rhetorical flourishes and of showing the extent of his reading, as are a good many of our poe men, he might very appropriately have prefixed, by way of motto to this communica- tion, these well known liues:— The King of France, with twenty thousand men, Marcaed up a bull, and then marchod dowa ugain. a the itcoey eee rei a at, see ahora zle anybody to guess for what object the expedi- was pee nh If the government had no other object in view, in marching an army into the Mormon country, except merely to enable Cumming Young as Governor, it must be confessed that they have psid “ dearly for their whistle, The same thing, it is now evident, might have been accomplished at a much less price. Had they sent Col. Kane on this business, instead of Col. Jobinston and his army, they might have saved, at the least calculation, teu millious of dollars. Sach @ saving, at the time the expedition was undertaken, might, perhaps, have been thought too trifling to de- mand a second thought; but, in the present condi- tion of the treasury, ten millions of dollars in hand would be quite convenient and acceptable. Ten millions have gone, however; and the only feeling of the President seems vow to be gratitude and satis- faction taai ten millions more are act to go the came to supersede ‘the termination arrived at” does ject” for wich “the expedition The goveri: went had some “other object in view in marching an army into the Mormon country” than “merely to enable Camming to super- sede Brigham Young us Governor.” That might, in deed, “have been accomplished st a much less price.” * Had they sent Col. Kane on this business, instead of Col. Jonaston and his army,” or had they sent Cumming and the civil officers alone, they might not only “have saved, atthe least caiculation, ten mil- lions of dollars,” bat they would have saved that sum of honor which the nation has lost. But every- body knows that government had some other object, and that the object was to break up the community of Saints and exterminate them as a body. This the government calculated as an easy matter; for they did not see the possibility of coming offsecond best. They did not take into account that God would fight a, them, aud that the Saints would remember and copy the example of their patriotic fathers. They knew the popular hatred aguinst the Saints, aud thought to crush them at once by military power. Had the government succeeded in successfully carrying out the cruel and exterminating measure, with but little trouble and expense, there would have been a gene- ral rejoicing, and the administration would have es- caped the public whip. But in this, as well as near- ly every other case, the world measures by success or failure. Great wrenige and villanous actions are varnished by success. The prosperous rogue gets courted, even when his roguery is known. It is too true that the sia consists in being found oat. Thus it ia with tyrants. Their acts of oppression, usarpa- tions and wholesale murder weigh nothing against them in the general estimation, if they are suecess- ful, but rather are they worshipped for that success * which their evil deeds have pure! . Bat the Buchanan administration have failed—been found out—caught; and therefore they must, flguratively spesking, go to prison and sabmit to a whipping at the curt's tail by that ammuble personage, the pub- lic. “At the time the expedition was undertaken,” the saving of “ten or tweleo millions of dollars” might, perbaps, have been thonght too trifling to demand a second thought from the goverament, for it would be ton mnch to expect those to be judicious in the expenditure of the public fands who so recklessly plan to spend the people's blood. Perhaps, also, sach a sum in hand. in tl present conditioa of the teeasury,” “would be q convenient and accept able;” and, perhaps. the “only feeling of the Presi dent’ might now be “catitade and satisfaction that ten militons more are net to go the same way.” But that will not cover the amount of costs incurred by the administration in this unhallowed expedition. If the debt was cancelled by the millions already ex- pended, or could it be paid by ten millions more going the same way,the President would iadeed bave cause for “gratitude and satisfaction” at an ex pense so “trifling” to be paid for an injustice so tre- mendous. But the government has failed pricious =. will hold it reaponsible tailure it, more than this, it must be answe for to posterity. Justice will be heard in the matter, and the unsmothered voice of the Sains will “plead,” “trumpet tongued, against the deep dam- nation of the” intended “taking off.” LATIRAS FROM SALT LAKE CITY AND THE PLAINS. Following these articles are several letters from at i influential Mormons from Salt Lake City and | from the Plains, setting forth to their friends their version of the settlement for which Col. Kane evi- dently bes credit with the faithful. “Brother John Kay” writes: You bave beard, ere this, that Colenel Thomas L. Kane paid us a visit. He came here via Cali- fornia. He was very sick on his arrival, remained with us about ten days, then proceeded to visit the ‘United States at Fort Bridger. Some of our boys took him withia abont tea or tweive miles of the fort, then watched him safe to cump. After laboring from two to three weeks, he succeeded in wdueug Governor Camming to consent to accom pany him to Great Salt Lake City. Aceurdingly, on the 6th April, they leit Bridger with two car riages,aud each a servant. They travelled about Oifteen miles, upset one of the cat in the snow, and there «stack for the night, It 50 bappened that W. H. Kimball, EB. ¥ Havks, 0. fi Rockwell, Howard Egan and myself, with a few other good boys, were out scouting in that vicinity, and on the morning of the 6th of April we took the Governor aod his small parcy under our protection, and brought them safe to, this place. I bave been with them on a tour as far youth as Spanish Pork, avd returned here last Friday. The Governor haa looked over the records of the Saprome Court, and also the library, found all correct, and, of course, will contradict the reports which have gone abroad To-morrow I expect to go into the mountains with the Governor and his party. Howard gan and five others of our brethren will accompany Colunel ane to the States. The rest of us will leave them at or best Bridger The | nited States troops are ¢: d to be in here on the Ist of June, but that will be if the Lord wills. For over a month the Saints have been very b a south with their and live soe here are not a great many families in this city. The brethren from the north and Tooele have | left. Yesterday I sent of thirty-five hundred of flour and wheat, also two of my wives, Sasan and Ellen, with their children; and in a short time we shail have everybody out of this. Then, if we cannot do better, we cut down our frait trees, set fire to our bouses, and move on slowly towards Sonora, al- though I believe the nearest way is to proceed via Jackson county, Mo. However, we can go any way wo please. We have now the Territory on wheels. | D. Grant, W. H. Kimball, James Ferguson, J. A. Young, and many more of your aoqnaintances: are well, nnd very active officers in the session. All the boys «re weil, and those that are desirous to keep the com »ndments of God feel first rate, and I may add tha’ | \cver saw the Saints look wad fee! better ‘than t! +) at the present time. The | «are moving all the Sainte who are hot ve wes. There is a better pros pe it than On any previous year. Our wheat | fad ot «ons look very fine. | Broth: tock, ‘clerk of the Missionary camp | Dow jor “ to Zion,” meeting with Colonel | Kane « ~ vm the Plains, writes from “Chimney | Rock, 4, M Colonel Kane has accomplished | the m+n as sent by President Buchanan to Utab, | and is now returning to Washington to fulfil the re- mantener. A and re encort were a with passports by Governor Cumming, Salt Lake City, oring to do the Saints justice. He has nf roaatrastioted the burning of the re- | cords, library, Xc., and “he really seems disposed to | take bold of the thread of justice.” i 1 ayo can traly bay we have received good news from . bar families are all well, and every soul in camp leaped with joy when I read them the letter from our beloved President. Praise the Lord, O ye | Saints! for he is “at the helm of the ship of Zion, and she sails well.” The Lord has been with his servants the mission- aries, who are now returning home, and the words declared in London are literally fulfilling ; and it would be truly marvellous if T did not know that they were uttered by the Spirit of God when filling my mission there. Saints, rejoice! Your prayers are heard by the Lord, and answered on our We are all well and exceedingly happy, and our animals feel well : they are gaining strength daily. The Platte is this season a noble river, full to the brim, thus cutting off all communication with tne troops, who are moving up on the south side: and although we bave an army ahead of us, commanded hy Colonel Johnston, and another going ahead, com- manded by Colonei Hoffman, we e. to go home safely. I understand hell is at Fort Bridger,and we don't want to go there. The soldiers were as mad as devils when Kane and his escort passed through their midst ; and they have made two at- tempts to kill the Colonel, but were foiled. MAKING REACTIONARY CAPITAL FROM THE NSW YOUK PARSS—PROPHECYING OF THE FUTORE GLORY OF THE KINGDOM. The Star is nearly filled with extracts from our city contemporaries, which, serving as o basis for an editorial, the Mormon writer by no means neglects to put to the advantage of “the kingdom:—” | | | THE REACTION, Action against us—reaction for us' This is the law by which the destiny of this people work, as far as the world’s positive power to infinence it is con cerned. The fact has often besa ilinstrated in our ex- perience, and is so pera written oa the pages of our history that a child may reed and understand it. And such wiil be the case until the kingdom of God is triumphant, aud the Saiats hold the domi- nant power of the earth. ‘The Saints are a people of destiny, and the direct, itive force which the world has to supply for the pvelopement of that destiny is “action against ns.” We are by no means surp when we see this force in ‘operation. This antagonistic disposition will increase until it becomes the positive priaciple by which all the Gentile nations of the earth will move. Antagonism to the rising empire of the fature, of which that “strange” le called Saints form the nucleus, is the part which the mass of mankind will perform in the great drama of the last days. It is their destiny to manifest action against the kingdom iu their positive condition, as it is, on the other hand, the destiny of the “pecatiar poeey to manifest action for the upbailding of that ingdom. ‘These are the two positive forces which Israel and the Gentiles will ina direct manner put forth for the developement of God's work. Both are necessary, for both have the same tendency. We are satisfied, therefore, to see the two antagonist forces— namely, the Saints’ force for, and the world’s force ainst; and, indeed, we have no complaint to urge when the antagonistic manifestation is fair and hon- orable. But generally it is unfair and treacherous, ‘Then we have 2 reasonable cause for protesting against it, though we by no means tremble at its re- sults; for it only gives the Saints a faster develope- ment by calling into action their own force, and driving them to drink a deeper draught of vitality. Now, if this “action again. ns” could destroy us— if our enemies could find what they significantly term the “solution of the Mormon problem,” that action would come to a dead rest, and no “reaction for us” would result from it. Posterty might grum- ble a bit at the injustice, but the community of Saigts would cease to be a fact. A griefless mourn- ing might come; and a procession of mourners pa repines giant ween aS enemies, led ry the administration, supported on priests and onthe left by editors. With capeodile tears and hypocritical solemnity they would then per- form the kind office so many times tenderly desired— they would, the considerate creatures, bury us. Bat, while it is their part to endeavor to physic us to death, it is our destiny not to die. If the king- dom has the action of earth and hell against it, the action of the Saints and Heaven is for it. Had the former only to strike against a body of sand, it would not rebound, but scatter the atoms to the wind; but it had to strike against a rock of udamant, and consequently a “reaction for us” becomes the natural result of “action against us.” All will remember the first bursting of the “action against us” nearly two years since, and how it spread until it vibrated England as well as America. So strong was it in many places-even in this coun- try—that it — rise to many truly formidable riots; so much so, that in the aristocratic city of Bath, the whole of its powerful police force had to be called out several times to flud itself unequal to the task. Birmingbam and other places will also afford exam- les of the virulence of the “action against us.” Mr. that strorg excitement which raged in America to- wards the Saints, and sent the force of a mighty na- tion to crush them. He knew not how truly ada- mantean the rock was upon which he struck, and how, though it retarned no blow, its stubborn solidi- | ty could make his own force rebound. He knew not bow much the Saints could pay fora reaction in their favor—how rich they were to parchase it with coin, which even our enemies would be bound to admit | was sterling. We, however, knew and prophesied that the re- action must come. We knew how strong the Saints were in their devotion and integrity—how binding was their union—how trae they would be to them- selves and their God. and how fuithful He would be to them. We knew that they could at least pay for areaction with such deeds of heroism that it’ was wot impossible even for the 7'mes’ American corres pondent to call them ‘‘a nation of heroes,” and that they could buy with “fortitade,” “constancy,” aad “self-sacrifice,” the ‘‘admiration’ of any oue “who has a particle of sympathy with plack.” That reactionhas commenced. It has set in with euch force a rainst the government, that, unless Bu- chanan | rings forth some great redeeming Measure, bids fair to © his name and adminisira- tion to infamy. i New York Times vi | decidedly says: —'' The world looks to us for suc example of political wisdom, such few people, now-a-days, are called on to displa: This “reac- tion for us” will increase and its effec in the world in our favor for a few years to come, ‘The Saints will reap many advautages from it, even if it amounts to no more than the permission to de- velop» themselves. Their progress will be immense, and their develo) nt aordinary. Those ot our well wishers whore hur y is interested in our weifare may make a note of this prophecy; for we don't mind running a risk,oven when our friends tremble torus. Indeed, thas is the time when we would prefer to make ovr prophetic mark. Bat we ron po risk, and therefore there is no virtue in our not being afraid. Moreover, some day, “action against as’ will commence again, It will then be more forceful than ever. But the stone will be adamant stifl. will be rich in ‘consistency,’ “ fortitude,” . “devotion” aud “‘herosun. They will be able to buy a reaction tothat action, and another py ee Pon at oT Lg “who has a icle of ¢ymp pluck” will be able ‘to } “withhold his admiration” nati! they will be every- | where acknowledged as a ‘nation of heroes,” and all lands resound with the tale of the “fortitude,” “con- wtancy,” devotion” and “‘self.sacrifice” of the Saints. Occasionally, the readers of the Star have been presented throazh its colamns with an official or public document on the “Otah difficulties,” as wis- dom directed, for present interest and futare value, Hut we have refrained from burdening our pages with extracts of the views, opinions, speculations and correspondence upon (tab affairs, simply giving in the “Pasting Events’ an epitome of news to be relied on and 4 bird's eye view of the condition of things in the States. Deeming the “reaction for us" of such prevent interest, as well as a subject for history, we have somewhat departed from our rule, and haye sent to oar readers the “Presson Utah Affairs” with all its “imperfections” on ita “head.” Of course, we by no means endorse all that we have extracted, nor hold ourselves re- sponsible to correct every view, seatiment, and opi- nion contained therein, which is unfavorable to truth and the Saints. The design is to give a view of “the reaction,” and not our own views and de- fence, We «ball, however, give them in due season, and for the present merely observe that it is not a matter of surprise that some ex ions distasteful to ue and our readers may be found in the signs of the reaction, but rather that the Saints have forced them to say #0 many nice things in their favor. The Mormens and Mormonism, [from Reynolds Newapaper, Joly 10.) The recent intelligence from Utah and tne United States indoces us to offer a few observations on tl remarkable le who had located themselves in the Valley of the Sait Lake, and who would now seem to be abont to seek a new resting place in some of the unclaimed and uncultivat territory of the Western hemisphere. It may be that Mormonism has originated in im- posture, and that many, if notall,of its peculiar rites CC are the “abomination y! hone #t this point, though not proved, be conceded : still, the writ id otitieal problem is by no means solved. After we have demonstrated the fabulousness of the gold tablets, convicted Joseph Smith of all sorts of possible and impossible scoundrelisms, and proved his followers to be a mixed multitade of the greatest knaves and idiots that ever walked the earth, Mormoniem still remains human fact—per- haps the greatest, certainly {ienost wonderful, rot chanan and his administration took advantage of of this nineteenth le to ay peepee | Assuch, it is entitled onven whose genuine and un- Wistakable as that of the starched and ard miserable sinners and exquisite saints of Re toees As men and women, to them Puritans of Exeter Hall, or the perfamed and that appertains alien or indifferent to us. The selves the name of profess to be the servants of Him who commanded Peter to put up his sword into its scabbard—have recommen: the rciless N qarees doomed Canaanites. Ou the other hand, the Mormonites have been eu- if red. They have been, and still are, sel led the “alt of the earth,” the ‘chosen of the Lord,’ ‘holy and liar people,” the “Latter Day Saints,” &c. All who do not belong to them are termed Gentiles; declared to be reprobate, and having their damnation made sure. These extsava- gant ravings of hostile and frieudly fanaticism are nothing more than what might be expected. But such extremes of eulogy aud vituperation may be safely left to neutralize each other. It was inevita- blethat the one exag; tion should elicit its oppo- site. Let them, therefore, work their work—which undoubtedly they willdo. Meantime, let us endea- vor to form an accurate estimate of what Mormonism really is—what it signifies, aud whither it tends. Faihng in arriving at perfect accuracy, let us, at least, approximate towards it as closely as we can. In order to do this, the phenomenon of Mormonism must be studied, not in the radiant and rainbow- tinted delineations of iis enamored votaries; far less ought we to study it—if truth be our object—in the hideous, tartareau-hued caricatures of muiignant aud enemies. The flatteries of fricnds and the calumnies of foes are alike incompatible with faithful portraiture. The encomiums and the re- vilines of fan m are equally remote from reality. What, then, is Mormomsta ‘” Here let us remark that it might not Le prudent—certeinly not pleasant —to inquire too enriously into the origin of any ex- istiag system of sectarianism. hacms of Anna Boleyn--the lust of Heury the Eigath—the amours of Mary Stuart, and the avarice of the Scottish no- bles—bad, according to all Romish and some Pro- testant historians, something to do wilh the origin of the reformed sage in these realms of Euglaud and Scotland. On other band, the Protestant who may be anxious to retaliate for this silly objec- tion to his creed, will find abundant material fora retort in the biog mapa of the Romish pontitls. The fact is, that the truth or falsity of any system of re- ligion does not depend upon the character of its champions and propagators. Bad men may, and, indeed, have been, the enunciators of great truths. Good men have been the advocators and dissemina- tors of pernicious errors. Christianity istrae though both Judas and Satan should vouch for it. Transubstantiation may be false, though Sir Thomas More, Paschal, Bossuet, and Fene- lon, and thousands of other equally great and men have vouched for it. Somehow or other, the follies and the wickedness of men seem to lie at the foundation of all existing systems—social, poli- tical and religions. In the moral and spiritual world, it may be as in the prone Ccrruption may be es- sential to growth. ¢ loveliest and the most usefal of the products of nature—the golden grain and the fairest flowers—are rooted in, aud nourished by the | rottenness and the feculence from which the sight and | the smell turn away with loathing and disgust. Joseph | Smith and Brigham Young may be as detestable and — miscreantish as the most virulent of their enemies | would have us believe; and Mormonism be as vera- cious. if not as respectable, as some of the most fashionable of the extant systems of theology. Mor- ; monism does net, either in its rites or its dogmas. atly differ from the orthodox forms of Christianity. | Trembraces both the Old and the New Testament; aad in addition to these, it includes the so-called Book of Mormon in its sacred canons. It ought, however, to be borne in mind, that the Mormons profess to derive the whole of their doctrines and customs from the Old and New Testaments, independently of the Book of Mormon. So far as known to us, the most gy a of these isthe practice of polygamy, which undoubtedly would be a great and grievous blot upon any religion sanctionin: a system of con- cubinage, legalized or other, however excelleut in other respects that religion may be. But we have yet to learn that the doctrine and practice of pla- Tality of wives is more forbidden by the letter, or more antagonistic to the spirit, of pare and undefiled religion, than the hideous and all-pervading system of v nt and promiscuons prostitation, that abounds in this and every other so-called Christian | country. Let, therefore, modern pharisaism and su- | Pasay orthodoxy rid themselves of this suppura- | ‘ing and devouring ulcer, before they point, with the | finger of puritanic scorn and holy disgust, at the Pra ee and regalated licentiousiess of the “Lat- ter Day Saints.” So much, for Mormonisin aad its peculiarities. Now for the Mormons. Who are they, and what do they want? They are mostly Anglo Saxons and Scandinavians —a breed of men certainly not inferior, either in intellectual ca- | a or physical prowess, to any race of men that ve impressed their mark uj this planet. They are chiefly—we may say excinsively- gathered from the various Protestant denominations of Europe. It isa remarkable and suggestive fact, that few, or none, of the Roman Catholics of either the Old World or the New have embraced the Mormon heresy. This we are disposed to attribute, not to any supe- riority (in which we do not believe) of Romaniam over its rival, Protestantism, but to the greater , faithfulness to their duties which characterize the Roman Catholic ministers of religion. In this coun try, and in Ireland especially, the contrast which the laziness, worldliness, and pride of the Protestaut parson presents to the zeal, the poverty. the ha mility, and care for the poor which ctaracterize the Romish priest, is, unquestionably, most striking, and be Sap but advantageous to our State supported religioniem. The Mormons, we have | reason to believe, are composed of thoze casteless and downtrodden classes who have been abandoned by our rolers, robbed by our landlords and capita: | lists, neglected and desvised by the established and diseenting vendors of Protestant Chriscianity, Ex: | cept as taxpaying and wealth-prodncing machines, the rulers of the nations ignored them and aban- doned them to the tender mercies of landlords and capitalists. From the church they received neither conselation nor protection. How should they? For, do we nut see the successors of the apostles plethoric and spoplectic with dainty and luxuriant living’ Like Prince Albert's prize pigs, the hearts of the bishops are clogged with tatness, and their souls emothered in carnality, so that they can hardly move or breathe on their own account, much less render assistance to the poor. With a few ilinstrious exeeptions, the inferior clergy imitate their betters, by hungering and hunting for the flesh pots of the State. As for the dissent- ing divines, they were too busily engaged in making for themeeives friends of the Mammon of uprighteonsness—the only one of the injunctions of their Master which they seem to understand —to pay any attention to the sufferings of the enslaved class es. Besides, the dissenters of our day wonld seem to consider it unworthy of their calling to interest themselves in the spiritual or moral welfare of any beneath the rank of shopkeepers and counter jump- ers. It would appear asif the prim and vinegar visaged preachers of dissent scorned to work for the salvation of any souls lower in the social scale than those of the ten l householders—thus requiring a rty qualification for the kingdom of Heaven, te wall es tor the elective franchise. To thousands ot the working classes, the fashionable Christianity of the day resembles the Saad of the Dead Sea— fair to the eye, but to the taste bitterness and ashes. This eS. a Lowy = emptied shells (emptied, when charged wit poison. ofab tffrle theology, constitute the we of the religious nutriment with which the licensed dealers in | commodities regale the perishing souls of the toilexhansted people. It is not then to be marvelled at that thousands of our fellow countrymen, yearning for something more genial and more human’'than the heartiess teachings of the priests, and destitute of those intellectual re- sources which bave saved myriads of the workin; classes from the snares of sensuality on the one hand, and the pitfall of imposture on the other—it is, we | say, no wouder that the despairing wretches who had not those mental resources to sustain them should have clatched at Mormonism as they would at anything elee that promieed to deliver them from the hopeless thraldom of their early lot. It may be that, in their eagerness to escape from the inhuman sway of the bloated priesthoods and decrepid religions of the Old World, they have embraced other errors as deadly as their ancient cast-off creeds—errora whose sole recommendation is that they are more fresh and vigorons than the putrid and effete soul-aystems of | the churches. Be this, however, as it may, there can be no doubt that, in one thing at least, Mormonism has been emi- neutly successful, It has, in the great majority of instances, really improved the earthly condition of thore who have embraced it. More than this, it has inspired with hope and with courage thousands of pe ayn and heart broken wretches, who, prior to their conversion, seemed abandoned of God and man. This new faith bas, so to speak, created a soul under the ribs of death. It has given to thousands of once destitate and despised Englishmen somoe- thing to live for, to fight for, and, if need be, to die for. On this ground, then, were it for nothing else, fo ———— — ns es or b pene bat as eavily oppressed, long suffering and earnestly atriy ling men, are entitled to the sympathy of the oo slaved classes throughout the world. But they have a claim to something more than sympathy. Their heroic endurance and marvellous achievements entitle them to the respect and ad- miration of their fellow creatures. Twice were the Mormons driven from their settlements in the United States before they had resolved upon their stupendous pilgrimage to the valley of the Salt Lake. How that gigantic journey was accomplished; unser | | j | | | | | i | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1858 how a thousand of trodden, save by the wild beast or the wilder Indiana— » pei ina forms had to be encouater- defied—had to be traversed; how therbagest hungered and toil-worn, but still dauntless pils , their destination; how they built a city, founded a civil and ecclesiastical policy ; how law and order was established; how skil ‘and industry con- barren wastes inte fruitful fields, howling forests into smiling gardens, until, under the talis- manic wand of labor, the wilderness was made to — = ry rose; how teeny gre are em- ed, success, in evel fopean country; and Seep heme of the ‘asen trodden and penury stricken victims of Europeau tyranny were leaving the land of their birth in order to find in the Mormon Territory that hope and encourage: ment denied to them in native countries—how all this bas been accom: by the reviled fol- lowers ot Joseph Smith all Europe and America have heard, and, thor hating, admired. In another of our paper our readers will find the latest news from Mormon settlement. With the causes that brought about the melaacholy state of things that existed ia Utah the readers of lds’ Ne must be familiar. We deeply regret the sufferings to whichthe have been subjected. But our opinion is, that in the whole of the transactions that have brought them into hostile col- lision with the United States, the Mormons have been mostly to blame. It was impossible for the re- public to have tolerated the insults to its sovereigaty which were constantly proc: from the Mormon leaders. Nor at this time of day is it for a momeut to be sup; that the ravings of fanaticiem, nor the invent of imposture should be allowed to supersede and abrogate the common principles of morality nor the ordinary laws of the State. Hiero- phant Brigham Young ‘and his underlings are at liberty to receive as many revelations as they please, but they cught to understand—and, what is more, they shull be made to understand—that revelation, from whatsoever quarter it comes, when it outrages the reason and the decency of humanity, is not a boon to be received and revered, but an icsult to be rejected, spurned and trampled under foot. Such we believe to have been the charactee of those “revelations” with which the high priest of Mor- monism thought to set at defiance the might and the majesty of the great republic. Uhis we deeply re- gret, chiefly for the sake of the Mormons them- selves, and partly for the sake of the great indus- trial experiment, which has been marred, or, at least, naw po Onr opinion is that the fanatical element of Mormonism, combined with the mon- strous priestly pretensions of the Mormon leaders, has nipped in the bud one of the most promising at- tempts to emancipate labor from the geinding yoke of usury and capital that the present world has yet seen. Those impious pretensivns, and the traly re- bellious attitude assumed towards the government of the eae States—added to the samars, of the jaysical restraint imposed upon parties wishing to es the Utah Territory—-have provoked against the Mormons that public opinion which left the govern- ment of the republic no alternative but war against the misguided and rebellious people. That war would seem to have come to a bloodless termination. So far as we can discover, the governmeat of Presi- dent Buchanan has acted with great and commenda. ble humanity towards the brave but deluded Mor- mons. Had it been any of the European govern- meats with which the Mormons had to do, a war of exteriaination would have been waged against them. Happily for them they have to do with a power which emanates from a great people, who, however much exasperated when their sovereigaty is de- fied, are naturally magnanimous and disposed to mercy, more especially when the offenders are their own flesh and blood. The subjezt is an interesting ope, and we intend shortly to recur to it. For the present, we conclude by expressing a hope that the much suffering Mormons will not find themselves under the necessity of resorting to another exodus. Governor Cumming is evidently in- spired with the most friendly disposition to- wards them. He admires their indomitable in- dustry—-their soul-stirring earnestness—their fear. less “courage—--their profound devotion—their burzing zeal, which moves them to che most heroic sap ie in the face of the deadliest dau- gers, when the load-star of duty beckons them on. It is, therefore, to be hoped that the misunderstand- ing between the Mormons and the United States will be removed, that friendly relations will be re- sumed, and that a fature of prosperity is in reserve for the strange and the wayward, but the courageous and industrious community now, or _— located in the far West, on the mountains of Utah, and in the valley of the Salt Lake. The virtues and the triumphs of the Mormons are all their own; their ignorance, their fanaticism, their vices, and their crimes, are the products of the hellish tyrannies indigenous to Europe and trans- lanted to America. There is no abomination in jormonism for which the rulers, the landlords, the capitalists and the priests 0° England are not, to a great extent, responsible. Revelations with —— to British putce ir ‘Py (Cranelated from Le Nord of July 21, fr the New York ALD} ‘The l'rench semi official papers continue to edify Europe on the subject of the disinterestedness of British pnilanthropy. Some days since the Consti- tutionnei, accordivg to information received from authentic sources, showed us how much Eagland gains by the exercise of the right of searching ves- sels suspected or guilty of the odious traftic in slaves, ard how the English colonies are supplied with com- yelled laborers that they are not even obliged to uy. Yesterday the Pudrie completed these revela- tions by showmg us how the right of search enables England to monopolize the trade of all western Africa, and to paralyze in those countries which are opening so slowly to civilization, all the useful operations that the navies of other nations may altempt. Tt was on the occasion of the discussion which arose on the 12th of this mouth in the House of Commons, on the motion made by a member of that House, to give up, as regards all navies, the right of search which hagland abandons in tavor of the United States, that the French journal makes these new revelations, which Eaglish abolition societies willot courve deny, as they did the former, but the truth of which seeins to us incontestible, tor it is founded, as the Patrie has forgotten to remark, on the international conventions which conceded to England the right of search. it will be re- membered that * Mutt lutely moved the entire suppression of the Kaglish squadron on the Afiican cuast, properly observing at the same time, that frum the moment whea the Eoglish crawers would be foroidden to visit any vessel bearing the American flag, the right of search became completely useless, for slavers, having a sure way of escaping search by the English cruisers, by hoisting the fede- ral flag, Would not be foolish enough to continue their abominable industry under auy other flag. The motion, supported by several speakers, was bused on much higher considerations. The right of search has never, in fact, been the slightest obstacle to sup- plying the slave market. It has bat extended the je und made it more ernel, by obliging slavers to calculate on a greater sacrifice Of men and money, and to ailow for those odions calculations at the ex) of the lives and sufferings of the unhappy chjecta of their infasnous commerce. Cuba, for in- stance, mut have fifteen thousand negroes annnal- ly— neither inore nor less; and if the slavers bring LO mure. the demand stops there. Well, the slavers have calcnlated thatthe right of search and confis cation involves the loss of two-thirds. Instead of fif- ——— ay Ee} fifty thousaad, and, to say. we fitt; thousand in vessels which mead or say commen date fifteen thousand. The number of deaths on the and a full third of the haman cargo which is thrown into the sea the moment the slaver is by cruisers, must be put down to the account of the right of search. All this is cha: beforchand to profit and loss, aad capttal is always found to insure the net proiit of the venture. The final result is always the same. Cuba is never without the nam- ber of negroes which she may judge necessary to her much coveted prosperity, the right of search only iucreases, in a fearful proportion, the horrors of the slave trade. There is, therefore, no reason for maintaining the African squadron, for the support 4 which Kagland pays no leas than twenty-five mil- Ons. ‘Then, why did the House of Commons reject, by a large majority, the motion proposing the suppres- sion of # squadron, ineffectual ia carrying oat the desired end, inhuman in its results, and exceedingly expensive? The Patre explains this. Indepen- dently of the obstinacy, ambition, and selfish designs of members of abolition societies, two powertul rea- sons induced the House to maintain the African squadron: the good of England in the first place, and the injory to others in the next. The Minister, =. aan = A! aco piee on the dread of see- im the slave renewed and again driving awa) civilization, which is beginning to develope teeclf rf the coast of Africa. This reason was for the aboli- tion societies; but he also soon made the most of another, which answers very differently the secret pre-oocupations of every English assembly. He showed that under the guardianship of the African squadron a regular trade, of which all the profits would go to the English, is by degrees being estab. lished on the western coast; the cotton trade is being rapidly developed. One little village exported last ir A greater pee of bales than the United tes ix are There lies a future freedom far “Gearon te the Eng- lish heart than the freedom of the ne; freedom from the depenrience that the United States causes to weigh on England's manufactories, which isso heavy and which becomes daily heavier to bear, Waa not this consideration cient to in dace the English House of Commons to persevere ip all the sar rifices which philanthropy, imposes on land? Besides ‘and here the revelations of the Patrie in,) t ce of the British the West const of Attica, not only has" for tate ult the ent of the trade of tries to the coun- bits it and Ce tg ue of Mislends Seaiipe accastheas ¥ natives to the i be! the over all other mpnene, aod y F: A only necessary to 4 r flag. jas! pom of the Tineaige imathorities in the bloody drama of the Regina Cooli is but a striking peoof of the influence the English flag es in those latitudes; and further, as the non semiofiicial journal properly remarks, slaver bunting is an ad iirable pretext for spying, and if necessary for ob- | structing the operations of other navies. There is | no trading to the African coust, (says that | journal,) which is not stopped by British cruisers, | ‘obliged to say whence it co and where it is | going to, waere intends we real and Asie | uently to show its register re rations: i is engaged in are inecril |. This is AY exaaade | ingly useful information, which is carefully collected | and profited by. Suppress the squadron, and this information disappears with the control of the Eng- lish officers, and all nations will have direct rela- tiong with the people of Africa, and the monopoly wi English commerce enjoys will be speedily appihilated. This is, in short, the true and altogether political reason why maintains Ler squad- ron at an expense of-twenty-five millions. z ‘This is the real state of the case ; and the Patrie might have added, to sustain its ition, that this | state of things—this authority t! the English cruisers exercise over the vessels of other natious-y- | this inquisition, this surveillance which they employ in finding out all the secrets of their commercia’ operations, are based on the treaties which (iu the name of philanthropy, of course,) she has statched from itime Europe. Let the Patrie bring for- ward the search treaties—those of 1833 especially, abolished as regards France, but which have re- | mained in vigor as regards several secondary mari- | time Powers which acceded to their terms, and which | have been the germ and the basis of ali posterior | conventions—and it will see how far this information is conformable to the it established by the incon- siderate concessions of treaties. the Patrie take up particularly the second and the sixth arti- cles of the instructions annexed to these conventions, in order to develope the the fourth article of the text, | eng of belligerent nations declaration the French governmeat, Lae made ced to ideas of abstract justice which she has so often treated with disdain; and it shonld not be forgotten. : England, in accepting the abolition of privateer- ing and in giving up the theory of blockade om paper, abandoned all her tradition and threw away the rejected weapons with which she sustained the stivggie against the firstempire. If England—thae | is to say, the greatest of the maritime Powers—had refused to accede to the declaration made by Count Waleweki, the Seen of that declaration by the other Powers would bave lost nearly all its practical interest, and would be only a generous declaration of principles without either probable or speedy appli- cation, Confermably to the text of the treaty, the various bee oy A Lip “4 rsheiggh ha os er ae- ie to the four which form declaration. Tt was almost universally adhered to. ‘Thirteen States gave in their entire q Spain and Mexico do not adawit the suppression of pieateering, Hae ro admit all the other points. Finally, the United States somit the four 4 but they ask that another brve be added, to the effect that ‘the private property of subjects or citi- should be exempted om the sea from seizure by the respective navies.” The American view is sti!l wider than that of the treaty of Paris; but from that fact it exceeds the bounds of possibility, for it implies the free circala- tion of the enemy’s merchandise, sailing under the enemy’s flag, which would annihilate the iy ig aad of maritime Powers; for to have nothing to fear from fleets of war, it would suffice to refrain from oppos- ing them by a naval force. ‘ing these restrictions, the four its of the declaration may be looked upon as an integral part of the public law of civilized nations. This rapid suc- cess obtained in two years is the beat reward for the initiative taken in the treaty of Paris. Warisa cruel 7 but it is the safeguard of national honor and independence. The nations cannot, there- fore, ever enter into an engagement to give it up. But they can do their utmost to limit its consequen- ces as regards private individuals and third - avd it will there find that the English cruisers when they stop—and they can always stop—a vessel, should “write an exact ua description of the state of the ship and the cargo ;” that in case of lawsuit—and this may heppen as often as the cruiser wishes—the cruiser will be a party to the preliminary examina- tion, will be represented at the inspections, the pre- paring of the inventories and the making up of the reports, of which & copy shall be delivered to the captain, and which he ‘shall transmit to the Ad- miralty or turn to his own use or that of his friends. Hence it evidently follows that when this right of search has been exercised for a certain time, the Engiish navy and the English Ad- miraity will be in po:session of all the secrets of the maritime commerce of rival navies, while at the same time, through annoyance by the cruisers, they will have the most efficacious meaus of obstructing it. ‘Will it be asked after this whether, as long as her squadron shall be maiutained on the coast of Africa, England could permit her exclusive monopoly of the commerce of t countries, and then, i the en- lightened philanthropy which directs her policy will allow of her entertaining troublesome uotions for its abolition ? ‘We will revert to all these questions, as the occa- sion is a good one for erasing from the maritime !aw of Europe this dangerous innovation of tue right ot search in time of peace that England has beguiled from Europe by Gressing up that concession, so fatal to the freedom of the seas, in the false colors of a too well calculated political philanthropy. The Patrie is wrong in believing that all is ended between the United States and England, with regard to that question. England apparently grants all the satis- faction demanded. She abandons the right of search, she withdraws her squadron—driven as she is by so many imperious necessities. serves to herself the right to assure herself of, ana to verify the nationality of flags. She intends ne- een on new bases, and Europe is and will be on the watch for these negotiations. If the upshot of them be the entire abandonment of the right of search as regards the United States, the other search treaties now existing are withont foundation. This treaty—our readers will excuse the poo sage which we will soon justify even in the Ce oees of the most credulous and headstrong par- ns of the right of search—this monstrous treaty of the 20th of December, 1841, the greatest, tne most dangerous, the most scandalous concession which Europe has made to the maritime ambition of Kag- land, will doubtless be potent and the day it shall be questioued it will quickly cease to be a por- tion of the conventional public law of Europe. Europe will treat it as France treated it a year ago, when France was enlightened by the discusston of it on‘her own soil. No doubt oe will not easily give up this diplomatic conquest ; but what is passing now between her and the United States proves that when needs must she knows how to — up the most ingenious conceptions of her philanthropy when she meets convinced and decided adversaries. (Trapeiated from the St. Petersburg Correapondence of the Paria Proae (July 21) for the New Yorx flreaup } Russians have occupied up to the present time a very inferior rank in industry and commerce. It would be a grievous mistake, however, to endea- vor to explain this state of things by a want of aptitude on their part. The Sclaves hive played a remarkable part in the history of Hastern comnierce. From the eighth to the twelith century they covered the Black Sea with their vessels. 1t was from this circumstance that it received the name of the Rus- sian Sea, avd Kiew at that time was one of the principal commercial and indastrial towns of Eu- rope. A long period of trouble, misery and oppression then commenced for Russia. Bat néw horizons have opened before her within a century and a half, now, enlightened by Western Earope, borne away by ber own instincts ‘suddenly aroused, she is entering — path of great industrial and commercial euter- prises. An immense net-work of railroads will soon cover her territory from the Baltic to the Black Sea, from the frontiers of Austria and Prussia to the Volga; and already new projects are the order of the d: Mr. Lubanski offers to unite by railroad Tiflis, capital of Georgia, with Warsaw and Germany, and this project is very favorably looked upon by the government. The day will ‘certainly come when a great railway will place Europe and Africa in com- monication. But this gigantic enterprise, which, according to Mr. Lubanski'’s estimate, would involve an expenditure of ove thousand two handred and sixty-six miltions of francs, is not certainly near | being realized. Another scheme still more gigantic has greatly interested the public mind at St. Pe! and at Moscow. It is nothing less than the construction of ® railway, which, commencing at Saratow, would cross Siberia, and have its terminus at the river Amoor, the boundary of China and an affluent of the Pacitic ocean. Estimates have been al: the cost of construction of this coloseal artery, which, bee 6 eee kilometers in length, would cost 1,120 million of franes. You can see by this that the se- vere climate of the north does uot impede the flight < aie aaa. —— ae however, only precede the positive ity, but they ma; haps precede it by an entire ceutury. Tnfact-t lave some difficulty in believing that the present renera- tion will be eaabled to go from Paris to the Chinese monopoly of frontier by railroad. If Russia wishes to make sure of a the trade of Central Asia, she probably has at her dis- posal a les# expensive means and one of more speedy execution, which you pointed out, seven or eight months ago, in Fg ag ioe in opposition to the rail- road projected by the English between the Mediter- ranean and the Persian gult by the Buphrates—1 mean the turning of the river Mus or Amour Deria, which almost tonches India, in the part of ite course, and to which should be given its original di- rection towards the —— Sea. This would give a line of navigation truly incomparable from St. Pe- tersburg, Nigney, Novgorod, Perm and Viatka, into the very heart of Asia. The commercial and politi cal preponderance of Rassia would then be extab- lished im an effeetual manner over Persia, Kho- rasean, Khiva, Bokhara and Khoundoaz, «o tirat it would envel the Chinese empire at the west, as it would envelope it on the north by meas of the river Amoor. | Cranmates (vom the Paris Pays (Jane 28) for the New Yous Hea | The treaty of Paris will mark an epoch in history, not only because it arranged the conditions of the peace between Russia and the Western Powers, but ause it has again taken up and continued the hi t traditions of European diplomacy: because it has pegs ny gas in international law anda benefit to humanity. Tt was in the session of the &th of April, 1854, (protocol No. 22,) that his excellency Count Wa- lewski. chief plenipotentiary of France, proposed, in the name of his government, to introduce into the treaty the basis of a new maritime law, in the form of a decleration, stipulating that—1. Privateering was abolished; 2. That neutral flags covered the enemy's om with the exception of those which are contraband of war; 3. That nentral merchan- dise, under a hostile flag, unless it be contraband of war, could not be + 4. That a blockade, to be obligatory, should be effective: that is to sag, it should be maintained by a force really sufficient to prevent access to the enemy's coast. These four bases were admitted, and the ef of Paris declaring the abolition of privateering will be reckoned the great documents which deserve the gratitude of — the calamities some upon a maritime war, and protects the interests of general co the interruption of which would be Injnrious to all the bell parties, in « century when the utmost Se of the nations is to ment of ti ¢ | But she re- | that is to say, neutrals. This great result is now accomplished, and we may hope that some day all the official notes containing the adbesions will be arranged and moulded inte the text of a single treaty, which shall form the maritime code of nations. Cotton Cultivation in the West Indies, The London Nonconformist has been suggesting to the Lancashire mill owners and others whom it may concern the policy of growing cotton in Ja maica and British Guiana, alleging that there is scarcely any limit to the quantity that could be grown in those colonies, and that, too, of a superior quality to any that is imported from the Kast Indies and some ports of America. One of the argumenta addaced in favor of the scheme is the possibility of Great Britain being at war with the countries from which the present supplies are derived; another is the unsatisfactory nature of their “domestic arrange - ments”-. meaning, of course, the existence of slavery in the cotton growing States of the American Union. The allusion to the possibility of war is the old vulgar clap trap, which is periodically employed to frighten the people of this country whenever any cause of difference arises between the two nations; but it has become somewhat stale, and has lost the effect for which it was intended. Who is there se blind as not to see that in the event of a war with Great Britain the stoppage of the cotton trade with that country would tell with ‘ar more disastrous ef- fect on that than on this side of the Atlantic? The closing of the Lancashire miils would carry starvation into thousands of English homesteads, avd render unpopular a war fraught with so much misery to the sturdy operatives of Eugland while the loss of our British customers would stima- late our people in the manufacture of the raw mate- rial, and the close of the war might witness the blotting out of Great Britain from her present posi- tion of the foremost manufacturer ot cotton staples. Tn regard to our pious cotemporary’s allusion to our domestic arrangements, we regard it as rank hy- ae Great Britain bas consummated the rain of er own colonies by admitting slave grown sugar and coffee on equal terms with those of her freed de- pendencies, though the latter are quite equal towup- plying her with as much of these articles as she may desire. Whence, then, this sudden tenderness o€ conscience in respect to slave grown cotton? This is straining at a gnat and swallowing .a camel, with a een But are the West India colonies really capable of supplying Great Britain with cotton to the extent yaunted by the Nonconformist and other English pw I say, orgy tet advisedly, no! scheme bas been tried in Jamaica, and me nally failed. In the year 1860 cotton planting that island became a perfect furore; of choice pricey vay largely seg ree anda ove 200- 5 was formed for purpose carrying into practical operation the favorite design. “Several owners of , landed row too, individaally embarked in the undertaking. What was the result ’ that, in spite of most luxuriant crops, in the teeth, too, of the fact stated by the Nonconformist, that the cotton plant in the West dndies is perennial, cotton cultivation was found to be a losing speculation, and was accordingly abandoned. There is one characteristic in West India vegetation which, iu the case of cotton, counteracted all the immense advantages which the climate and soil of Jamaica undoubtedly possess over the Sonthern States—that is, there is no so such thing asa regnu- lar season for coming to maturity. On the same bush may be seen blossoms, Tene cena b= A rent een ot the fully ripe cotton. It is obvious that to gather a crop under such circumstanees must be attended with great difficulty. Day after day, thronghout the entire ty mast the picker return to the same bush and engage in the weari- some search for ripe pods. The expense attending this eee Lond Neyid my eeye process more than counterbalances vantages of perennial growth. It was found to bo so in the case of cotton growing in Jamuica, as it will be found in Guiana or any other part of the West Indies, in which it may be tried. It is the same peculiarity which has moted the manutacture of wine from the excellent grapes of the country, and which still prevents the fo carne ts —e ewe a ine gathering of w rit, to jer it a pa! concern, impera- tively demands a season of Uisvalfeasoes y It is very casy fora gentleman to sit in a cozy arm chair and advise what onght to be done in & country five thousand miles off; but, in his ignorance of the peculiarities of climate and a thousand other things that require to be taken into acconnt, ne in liable to make himself very ridiculous, as the advo- catesof cotton cultivation in the West Indies are doing. The Southern cotton planters may rest as- sured that they will never have rivals in the West a, - —_ on sei even be ye all the wealth owners should be against them. ree — Care ot TO THE EDITOR OF THRE HERALD. As we always look to your columns for the new- est and perfect movement in politics, social life, the arts and sciences, and perceive the interest you take a making known everything that is worth knowing, | to call your attention to a recent announce- ment abroad consnm, be cured by o method now coming into use. Will you inform us on the subject at your leisure ” A Constant Reape. Our correspondent probably alludes to the recent discovery of a Dr. Charchill, now in Paria, No. & Rue Larry, who claims that the administration of hypophospites of lime and seda in cases of « tion, affects cures in all the stages of the disease, even the third, except when there is an actual lesion of the lungs. His theory is that the disease is undue waste or deficient supply of oxydizable and assimilating state requ! human frame. He therefore prescribes these eS in sweetened water, in doses ‘0 20 grains according to the condition of ' He has communicat his fl ced 70 THR RDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York, August 6, 1858. As the case of de Riviore has #0 recently appeared in your paper, the following may not be unscceptable to your readers:—In May, 1867, ® French or Dutchman came ae ee) en ae course, as they i that ‘was @ Count pe Fm yt! = and a man of